Eye-catching Color Ideas for Your Home

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Colors are everywhere and there are approximately 10 million colors in existence. In fact, they play a vital role in our lives as they form a visually powerful international language.

Colors are irreplaceable. They are also capable of swaying your thinking, causing specific reactions, and affecting your actions.

If you wish to express something through your home’s interior design, you have to know how colors influence our mood, how they behave, and how they can work with other colors.

In this article, we will be sharing some interesting color ideas for your interior design.

But first, we will have to learn how to use colors wisely in interior design. Here are three steps to doing so:

Step One-A: Knowing Your Living Space Well (Lights)

Lighting has the greatest impact on spaces and colors, especially sunlight. To understand the relationship between colors and lighting, you need to understand how light acts.

The orientation of the room directly affects the direction of sunlight, causing different sunlight refraction effects. So when your room is facing west and there is no direct sunlight, what your room receives is the refraction of cool colors, making you feel a little cold. Because of this, you may consider designing your room with warm colors. For rooms that bring in direct sunlight, you can consider using some cool colors.

In addition, high-gloss materials tend to reflect light well so they will brighten the colors. Low-gloss materials, on the other hand, will absorb light and darken the colors. So it is important that you select the right materials for your home.

Step One-B: Knowing Your Living Space Well (Functions Of Each Room)

The functions of the room also affect our choice of colors. Overly strong colors are best used in spaces that are not commonly used because they could have a direct emotional impact on people. However, strong colors in various tones can still be used in some of the spaces in our home, such as the hallway.

Step Two: Choosing The Right Colors

The best way to match the space with the color that suits it the best is to first sketch them out or use a 3D drafting software to render before putting in both light and dark perspectives to observe the overall effect at the same time.

Step Three: Combining Different Colors

Combining different colors is simple; for example, you can use the same hue of color with different shades. If we only look at a color on its spectrum, it can form a series of corresponding colors from light to dark. Matching a color’s brightness with different tones can also form a series of contrasting colors.

When you are using a single color with varying hues and tones, you need to pay attention to its effects on materials of different furnishings in order to avoid a monotonous and dull atmosphere.

There are also many color-picking tools online where you can select your main color before finding suitable matching colors. These tools can help you create the desired color palettes for your space.

Amazing Color Ideas For Your Home

Red

The color red symbolizes strength, love, and adventure. In the Chinese community, red is a very significant color as it is the color of luck and prosperity. The Oriental style of interior design often incorporates red-colored elements.

Do keep in mind that you should not use too much red in designing your interior as it only works as a simulating color, just like black. You can use red in places where you want to enhance contrasting colors.

Orange & Yellow

Orange is an energetic color that represents the season of fall and harvesting. The energy of red and the happiness of yellow become the color orange when combined together.

Yellow stands for positive energy and happiness. It is also often associated with hope, warmth, and sunshine. Yellow is thus a welcoming and uplifting color.

Orange and yellow have similar characteristics, making them both suitable for your home’s entrance foyer.

Green

The color green is the color of growth and spring. Its color psychology is harmony, safety, and nature.

It is also a calm and restful color and brings freshness to your living space. It will also look good in your bedroom and kitchen.

Blue

The color intermediate between green and violet is blue, as of the sea and sky on a sunny day. Freedom, imagination, wisdom, and loyalty are the traits blue is often associated with. The color blue is believed to be beneficial to our body and mind.

Being a calming and relaxing color, blue can be used in the bathroom and bedroom but it might look dull and washed-out if the tone used is too pale.

Purple

Purple represents wealth, mystery, and independence. It is often associated with luxury, ambition, and nobility.

To have a formal and elegant look for your home, you can use purple in your dining area or the living room.

In conclusion, your chosen colors will have an impact on the vibes created in your home, so you need to think carefully about which colors to use in different parts of your house.

Originally published on renotalk.com.